Africa South of the Sahara- West and Southern Africa

European countries expanded into Africa to take advantage of its?

• Happiness

• Natural resources

• Schools

• Sports

__________ of enslaved people in the region was very profitable.

• Trade

• Food

• Animals

• Money

Europeans developed colonies in the region after the Trade of _______________ ___________.

• Islands

• Healthy

• enslaved people

• rivers

West Africa is the most populous region of Africa and many different ______ _______ live there.

• Berlin conference

• niger river

• ethnic groups

• south africe

After a series of conflicts, the gained control of the colony

• South America

• Germany

• US

• British

South African countries began to fight for _________ in the 1960s.

• independence

• Nuclear families

• desertification

• Nelson mandela

Nelson Mandela (imprisoned) led a movement for _______ _________ of black Africans of South Africa

• Dry Zones

• West Africa

• civil rights

• trading posts

In the 1990s,____________ laws were repealed and Mandela, when released from prison, became president

• Harmattan

• Muslims

• Jewish

• apartheid

The _____ _______ is the most important river in the region as it provides fertile farmland.

• Nile River

• Niger River

• Amazon River

• Mississippi river

___________ winds contribute to the process of desertification.

• Health

• Africa

• Europe

• Harmattan